WEST NORRITON — Early in the season, Wissahickon sent the Norristown Eagles to a hard landing with some late-game heroics by point guard, Chase Wilson, who put back his own rebound to stun Norristown by one point.

Payback is a five-letter word.

“We had this game circled on the calendar,” said Norristown coach, Mike Evans. “That loss really woke us up and we’ve been looking forward to playing against them again.”

The Eagles rolled to a 69-48 win where their only deficit was a brief 5-0 lead held by Wissahickon to open the game. The Eagles worked the ball well, shot the ball well, found the inside man and earned trips to the line.

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Defensively, Wissahickon stayed true to their zone and forced Norristown to outside shooting, which they made. Norristown made 18 points in the first quarter, but only seven in the second.

“Their zone is really different, they gave us a lot of problems last time,” said Eagle point guard, Bernard Gordon. “But we watched a lot of tape to find how to work the perimeter and attack the gaps.”

In the first matchup of the season, the Trojans trailed by four at half and managed to keep it close in the second session, but history would not repeat itself Tuesday night. Norristown came out shooting lights out, racking up 26 points in the third, led by Josh Johnson, who had 11 of his 20 points in the quarter.

“We were just hitting our shots, getting teammates involved and penetrating to the basket,” Jahbri Hargrove said, who had 18 points.

The fourth was nothing more than a highlight reel for Norristown, whose eldest players thrived in the atmosphere of senior night and threw down dunks that electrified the crowd and sent the visiting Trojans packing on the horse they rode in on.

“We took everything we could from that loss and made it into a positive,” Gordon said. “We came in last time thinking it would be a cakewalk, but tonight we played 32 minutes of good basketball.”

“We knew what was at stake tonight,” Evans said. “We didn’t want to go into a tough matchup against Cheltenham with Suburban One on the line, we wanted to get this win tonight at home.”

The first half for Wissahickon was all the Chase Wilson show, accumulating 15 of his team’s 19 points, scoring seven in the first quarter and all eight of his team’s points in the second. In the final seconds of the first session, he wrestled the ball free and went coast to coast for two as time expired. Wilson was led by medical staff to the training room with a stream of blood running from his nose while his team gathered into the locker room.

He wasn’t fazed however, scoring ten more points in the second half to bring his total to a game-high 25 points.

With this win, Norristown clinched the Suburban One title for the second consecutive year.